Plants in Malayalam
സസ്യം (sasyam) is the general word for plants, the one in school textbooks and on nursery boards, and it stretches over greenery and vegetables. In conversation people usually name the particular plant, but for the category as a whole this is the word.
Most common translation
Plants, trees, etc. vegetables.
ഈ സസ്യം ദിവസവും നനയ്ക്കണം.
ee sasyam divasavum nanaykkanam.
This plant must be watered every day.
All Malayalam words for “plants”
- സസ്യം (sasyam) — Plants, trees, etc. vegetables.
- ഔഷധം (oushadham) — Medicine, medicinal herb, plants.
- തോട്ടം (thottam) — Garden, a plot near a house where flowers or plants are grown.
- നടുതല (naduthala) — Plants or seeds for cultivation, tubers, etc. harvested once a year, the crown of the head.
- പച്ചപിടിക്കുക (pachapidikkuka) — (plants) grow green (idm.) become prosperous.
- പാവകം (pavakam) — Common name for various medicinal plants.
oushadham narrows to medicinal herbs and pavakam is a collective name for medicinal plants, while thottam is the garden they grow in rather than the plants themselves.
Common questions
How do you say plants in Malayalam?
സസ്യം (sasyam) is the word for plants in general.
What is the word for medicinal plants?
ഔഷധം (oushadham) covers medicinal herbs, and പാവകം (pavakam) is a collective name for several medicinal plants.